We enjoy travelling the back-roads instead of the main highways, and
here is a delightful part of the trip we did between Bendigo and Halls Gap.
We stopped at a little town called Avoca which stands in the gently undulating
basin of the Avoca River and rises in the Pyrenees Ranges to the west. To the
south, the region is bounded by low hills of the Great Dividing Range; eastwards,
the basin ends in a dry forested rise; to the north the Avoca River runs slowly
through the plains of the Wimmera before petering out in swamps near the Murray.
The town and river were named after Avoca,
the village and River Avoca in County Wicklow, Ireland.

Trees are E. rubida, the candlebark.